Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard |
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Epig. 12. Carbo the Courtier.
Carbo a great Astrologer is grown,The Plannets motions unto him are known,
And all the Signes, he most judiciously
Observ's, black patches under either eye
He places, and so variable proves,
He them misplaces, as the Signe removes:
Nor Warlike Mars, nor potent Jupiter,
Were Rulers at his birth, but onely her
Whom Alexander gave the Apple to,
For which Saturnia wrought the Trojans woe:
That fatall Apple which faire Illion fir'd,
Is mightily by this Musk cat desir'd,
Variety of Females make his skin
Look parch'd, and all his marrow frie within.
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